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N - Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan, the British-born, American-raised filmmaker, was on a Hollywood hot streak when he was tasked with breathing life back into the Batman franchise.

Memento and Insomnia demonstrated a knack for delivering big screen entertainment with psychological depth, and in Batman Begins Nolan rebooted the series by exploring the younger years of Bruce Wayne (played with dogged determination by Christian Bale).

The film was a box office hit, and went one better in his follow-up with The Dark Knight, a sprawling crime epic that won an Academy Award for the late Heath Ledger. The curtain came down on Nolan and Bale's Bat-tenure with the release of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.

With $2.4 billion in box office earnings and a new generation of Bat-fans, Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy put the character back on the map and helped pave the way for Warner Bros to make Man of Steel and Batman v Superman.